The death of Cristiano Ronaldo's son: reflections

Paulo Degering R Jr
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One of the babies that Cristiano Ronaldo's wife was expecting died during childbirth. Another opportune situation not only to analyze coldly, but to take the philosophical vision of the Doctrine we embrace to the world.

First of all, it is necessary to remove the absurdities. Some say that this was due to the action of “karma”, which, as we already know, does not exist. So how can God allow such disgrace to a soul that has not even taken the first steps in the school of Earth?

On the one hand, there is the view of materialism: there is no God, there is no Spirit, there is no afterlife; there is only the flesh, and we are beings that live from dust to dust. A philosophical digression in this sense is not appropriate here, since this vision is totally removed from our ideas. It is only worth asking: if that were the case, we would be mere machines, for which good and evil represent nothing, and where the worst of murderers could be equated with the best of humanitarians. The good, in fact, would be nothing more than an illusion and life on Earth would be worth absolutely nothing.

Finding ourselves in the line of those who recognize the existence of God and the continuity of life after death, we need to make a distinction between those who assume that reincarnation is the explanation for everything and those who believe that the soul is created at the moment of birth or fertilization. . In the latter hypothesis, the child who dies before his first steps would be very lucky, for, having done neither good nor bad, he could not make mistakes, while the one who lived to old age, having almost always made several mistakes, may not have found time to correct them while still alive. We asked that God would be the one who would not give the repentant individual more chances.

No, our positions do not fall within any of these previous ones, but that of the doctrine of reincarnation, the only one in which it finds reason and logic that explains everything in a clear and sensible way. So, we will say: the individual who dies while still a child is a Spirit, who would only enjoy one more incarnation with a view to evolving. Having not avenged the baby, it will be born again in other conditions, continuing its evolutionary journey. There is, for him, neither advantage nor disadvantage.

It remains to be seen whether his death has anything useful or even necessary. In The Spirits' Book, there are the following questions and answers:

345. Is the union of the Spirit with the body definitive from the moment of conception? During this first phase, could the Spirit renounce inhabiting the body destined for it?

“The union is definitive, in the sense that another Spirit could not replace the one assigned to that body. But as the ties that bind it to the body are still very weak, they are easily broken. They can be broken by the Spirit's will, if the Spirit retreats from the test he has chosen. In such a case, however, the child does not succeed.”

346. What does the Spirit do if the body he has chosen dies before birth?

“Choose another one.”

The) - What is the use of these premature deaths?

“Most of the time, they are caused by the imperfections of the matter.”

347. What use will a Spirit find in its incarnation in a body that dies a few days after birth?

“The being is not then fully aware of its existence; the importance of death is almost none. It is often, as we have said, a test for parents.”

It is very clear: we are incarnate and, therefore, we are subject to the laws of matter. At the same time, premature death is a test (and not a punishment, under any circumstances) for the parents, who can gain a very important experience by going through this experience.

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